Prop 8 supporters argued that marriage should be limited to
opposite-sex couples because the state has an interest in
regulating relationships that have the "unique capacity" to
"create new life."

Of course it's silly to imply gay people can't make babies.

Lesbians can get pregnant pretty easily by going to their local
sperm bank, and gay men can "create new life" by enlisting a
surrogate mom.

The group of Republican lawmakers who are defending DOMA – which
defines marriage as between a man and woman for federal law
purposes – seemed to acknowledge in their own brief that gays can
have kids.

That brief argues that straight couples should get special
marriage privileges because they're the only ones who have a
"unique ability to produce unplanned and unintended offspring."

It's true. Gay couples actually have to plan their pregnancies,
unlike straight couples who can get knocked up without much
effort at all.

Jokes aside, the fact that neither group acknowledges the
existence of infertile straight couples makes their
arguments rather illogical.

But this debate isn't really about making logical legal
arguments. It's about homophobia.

If gay couples can't have the same rights as straight couples,
then they're simply not equal.

As the New York Times columnist
Frank Bruni wrote in a moving op-ed, laws like DOMA "codified
unequal treatment of gays and lesbians and, in doing so,
validated the views of Americans who see us as lesser people."

"If our love is suspect, then so is who we are," Bruni added. "No
two ways to interpret that."